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Conspecific cueing or cooperative feeding?—Foraging stable flies are visually attracted to conspecific flies

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
In two‐choice laboratory bioassays, food‐deprived and CO2‐stimulated stable flies were offered paired landing platforms that were baited or not (control) with conspecific flies. The presence of conspecifics prompted the attraction and landing of foraging stable flies.
Emmanuel Hung, Justin Wong, Augustus Negraeff, Anya Gould, Gerhard Gries   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) feeding on donkeys in the United Kingdom, with reference to the risk of transmission and persistence of African horse sickness virus

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Culicoides biting midges were collected at a donkey sanctuary in the United Kingdom using UV light‐suction traps. Culicoides were found in abundance and all specimens were identified to species level. Blood‐feeding on donkeys was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing of host bloodmeals. Donkeys could play a significant role in the
Zoe Langlands, Simon Gubbins, Simon Carpenter, Marion England   +3 more
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Do secretions from the uropygial gland of birds attract biting midges and black flies?

, 2011
Bird susceptibility to attacks by blood-sucking flying insects could be influenced by urogypial gland secretions. To determine the effect of these secretions on biting midges and black flies, we set up a series of tests.
Del Cerro, Sara, Rivero de Aguilar, Juan, Anastasio Argüello, Argüello, Anastasio, Martínez-De La Puente, Josué, Rivero-De Aguilar, Juan, Santiago Merino, Cerro Gómez, Sara del, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Martínez de la Puente, Josué, Sara del Cerro, Merino, Santiago, Juan Rivero-de Aguilar   +12 more
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Ecosystem recovery in restored saltmarshes detected through invertebrate communities

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Saltmarsh ecosystems support rich biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. Invertebrate communities underpin essential processes such as nutrient cycling and decomposition. However, saltmarshes have been widely degraded by land use change.
Agustina Quadri‐Adrogue, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett, Kristian Bell, Melissa Wartman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biting midge dynamics and bluetongue transmission: a multiscale model linking catch data with climate and disease outbreaks

Scientific Reports, 2021
Bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 8 has been circulating in Europe since a major outbreak occurred in 2006, causing economic losses to livestock farms. The unpredictability of the biting activity of midges that transmit BTV implies difficulty in computing ...
Tim W. R. Möhlmann, Matt J. Keeling, Uno Wennergren, Guido Favia, Inge Santman-Berends, Willem Takken, Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt, Samuel P. C. Brand   +7 more
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The Feeding Ecology of Invasive Pink Salmon Juveniles in Northern Norwegian Rivers and Their Role as Prey to Native Salmonids

Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Increasing numbers of invasive Pacific pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) are spawning in northern Norwegian rivers, leading to large numbers of juveniles migrating to coastal waters. This raises concerns about food competition with native salmonids in rivers, although details about the timing and intensity of pink salmon feeding and the ...
Katherine Dunlop, Antti P. Eloranta, Karl Øystein Gjelland, Sigurd Slåteng, Jenny Jensen, Rune Knudsen, Mikko Kiljunen, Hallvard Jensen, Martin A. Svenning, Rune Muladal, André Frainer   +10 more
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Two New Species of Biting Midges of the Genus Forcipomyia Meigen from Ecuador (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) [PDF]

, 2017
Adults of two new species of biting midges in the subgenera Lepidohelea Kieffer and Metaforcipomyia Saunders of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, F. (L.) ivani sp. nov. and F. (M.) aidae sp.
Sabrina I. Hochman, Pablo I. Marino, Spinelli, Gustavo Ricardo, Hochman, Sabrina I., Marino, Pablo Ignacio, Gustavo R. Spinelli   +5 more
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Beyond birds: rethinking bird‐centered pathogen models in light of insect migration

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
Migration redistributes biomass, nutrients, and pathogens across ecosystems. For decades, migratory birds have been treated as the default long‐distance pathogen vectors, shaping both conceptual frameworks and empirical models of disease ecology.
Virginia Morandini
wiley   +1 more source

Biting Midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae and Leptoconopidae) from the Crimea

, 1974
The data on the Crimean fauna of biting midges are presented for different landscape-climatic zones and regions.. In all 40 species of biting midges from the Culicoides genus and one species from the Leptoconops genus were found in the Crimea.
Шевченко, А.К.
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